The decisive battle against the Third Reich

If there is a "Northern Fortitude" plan, there will naturally be a "Southern Fortitude" plan.

The "Southern Resolute" plan refers to the scam arranged by southern England...the method is similar, that is, to fabricate a first army that does not exist at all.

"The First Army is commanded by George Patton!" Schuster introduced: "This army is located in the Dover area, which is in the southeastern part of the UK. It has a strength of about 500,000. They are the main force attacking Calais!"

"No, this is impossible!" Rommel shook his head: "They will not attack Calais!"

Publicly or privately, Rommel was unwilling to admit that the Allies would attack Calais.

"Your Excellency Marshal!" Colonel Schuster replied: "I know you don't want to believe this, but please look at these surveillance reports... It is half a meter thick. We have obtained enough information, including The whereabouts of its commander, George Patton!”

General Patton is indeed a heavyweight, so his appointment as commander is very convincing.

However, Qin Chuan knew that this was done precisely to make the German army believe it, otherwise the German army would never know Patton's whereabouts.

"What about aerial reconnaissance?" Rommel asked.

Unlike Scotland in the north of England, Dover was just across the English Channel and within range of German aircraft.

"We have done many reconnaissances!" Shuster replied: "We even bombed its base, and the results confirmed that a large number of US troops are gathered there!"

As he spoke, Shuster had someone bring a stack of documents and said, "These are the photos taken by our reconnaissance plane and the photos after the bombing!"

Rommel flipped through the photos one after another, but Qin Chuan was not even interested in looking at them.

Of course they were fake, to be precise... it was a set.

Barracks, hospitals, logistics warehouses, as well as tanks, artillery and a large number of landing craft on the water.

British intelligence agents invited the famous architecture professor Basil Spence and asked him to direct a film studio to build a set of fake "sets" in Dover, complete with tanks, cannons and warships. Made of oil drums, wood, canvas, etc., every detail has been carefully considered. The chimney of the "warship" will smoke, clothes are drying on the deck, and even the track marks of tanks and car tire tracks are constantly updated.

On the other hand, the US and British air forces have extremely tight blockades in this area.

If this "film set" is not ready, it will never allow German reconnaissance planes to come in for filming. Only when everything is ready... will the Allied Air Force pretend to expose flaws in air defense and "break through" the Germans? After the filming of "Enter" was completed, the Allied air force pretended to arrive and drove them out.

Qin Chuan didn't think he could find any flaws in these props, because all of them were aerial photos of the Air Force, and they were taken from a long distance when the British deliberately burned tires to create smoke. Compared with a black and white TV full of snowflakes, even if there are any flaws... it will probably be classified as a shooting problem.

"This is probably just a cover!" Rommel said: "They are just deploying a small number of troops there!"

"Your Majesty Marshal!" Colonel Schuster said: "We have three spies who have successfully obtained relevant information from there!"

As he spoke, Colonel Schuster placed the relevant documents in front of Rommel.

That was a report sent back by a German spy on the dynamics of the First Army, so Rommel fell silent.

What Rommel didn't know was that this was also not true. These three spies might be true. They were indeed sent by Germany, but they were arrested by British intelligence agencies as soon as they got off the ship.

Therefore, under some coercion and inducement, these three spies were instigated by the British Intelligence Agency to rebel, and then provided the Germans with intelligence that was completely compiled by the British Military Intelligence Agency. There were even a few seemingly casual references to the plan to attack Calais.

After looking at it, Rommel turned his attention to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan said nothing.

The pain for Qin Chuan is that... although he knows that all this is false, he can't say it. Even if it comes out, it can only be a guess because there is no evidence.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "Have you never thought that these spies would be arrested by British intelligence agents and instigated rebellion?"

"Of course we have considered it!" Colonel Schuster replied: "But three spies, Lieutenant Colonel, what are the chances that all three spies will be arrested?"

This is indeed... three of the three dispatched will be arrested. According to common sense, this probability is indeed not high.

It's just that the German Intelligence Agency didn't know that Britain had "super secrets", so the British knew the code names and disguised identities of these spies even before they set off. So he will be caught as soon as possible.

Rommel seemed to understand what Qin Chuan meant, so he nodded and said: "That's right, Lieutenant Colonel. If there is any problem with the First Army and the situation reported by the three spies is consistent with it, then it means that There’s something wrong with these three spies!”

After thinking about it, Rommel said to Colonel Schuster: "We can do this and let one of the three spies come back, and then we can know the truth!"

Qin Chuan shook his head and said in denial: "Marshal, although this is a feasible method, it cannot be verified!"

Qin Chuan also thought about this method, but he rejected it.

"Why?" Rommel asked.

"Because the United Kingdom has implemented emergency wartime controls, Your Excellency Marshal!" Colonel Schuster replied: "No civilian vehicles or ships are allowed to travel! In other words, even if we give the order to the spy, he cannot return. Unless he swims across the English Channel!"

So things hit a dead end.

At this time, Qin Chuan had to admire MI5's meticulous intelligence... Qin Chuan even knew that they were false, but had no way to prove it.

Qin Chuan went through the entire intelligence chain again:

Radio monitoring hears what the British want you to hear.

Reconnaissance planes can only take pictures of what the British want you to take.

There are also newspapers, televisions, radios, etc., which often include the news of the wedding of an officer of the First Army, or the internal competitions of the First Army, as well as broadcasts of current events.

If Qin Chuan hadn't known that all this was "made", he would have really believed that the Allies had deployed heavy troops in the Dover area to prepare for the attack on Calais.

So, in this respect, Rundstedt and even Hitler believed in this not because they were stupid, but because the enemy was too smart.

Qin Chuan even thought that even Rommel was a little shaken.